Ideas for integrating Civil War across the curriculum
Language Arts
Spine Poetry (5th)
Baseball and the Civil War (related YA book?)
Monologues
Letters home
Narrative
Letter to Abraham Lincoln
Math
Spreadsheets for battles per state - graphing (also includes geography)
Word problems
Travel (distances, how long it takes, caloric intake, weight of equipment, amount of food)
Numbers of soldiers killed
Measurement - http://www.angelfire.com/me/civilian/recipes.html
Science
Uses of plants, home remedies
Role of disease in outcome of war
Weather
Medicine
Advancement in artillery, technology
Food preparation and preservation
Paranatural
Art and Music
Gravestone rubbings
Music of the time
Architecture
Social Studies
Comparison to modern day war and communities
Economics -- economies of the north and of the south; monetary policy
Economics -- impact of embargoes/controlling the ports to Southern defeat
Trip to Jamestown: photo story or video project (4th grade)
The Supply Train - how do you supply troops, move supplies, logistics, comparing costs today vs. then, transportation - cost of war
Students plot distances of troop movement, convert to student footsteps, compare distance
Communication and noncommunication - play game "telephone"`
movement of troop into battle, plot distance difference with GPS
Writers/songs known in that era and comparing with artists at same time from other countries
using wordle to compare, google maps
Measured pace (pedometer app), GPS measures speed, simulate "troop movement"
Ghost Cadet book - march from VMI to New Market
measure distance with maps
Ideas for integrating Civil War across the curriculum
Language Arts
Spine Poetry (5th)Baseball and the Civil War (related YA book?)
Monologues
Letters home
Narrative
Letter to Abraham Lincoln
Math
Spreadsheets for battles per state - graphing (also includes geography)Word problems
Travel (distances, how long it takes, caloric intake, weight of equipment, amount of food)
Numbers of soldiers killed
Measurement - http://www.angelfire.com/me/civilian/recipes.html
Science
Uses of plants, home remediesRole of disease in outcome of war
Weather
Medicine
Advancement in artillery, technology
Food preparation and preservation
Paranatural
Art and Music
Gravestone rubbings
Music of the time
Architecture
Social Studies
Comparison to modern day war and communitiesEconomics -- economies of the north and of the south; monetary policy
Economics -- impact of embargoes/controlling the ports to Southern defeat
Trip to Jamestown: photo story or video project (4th grade)
The Supply Train - how do you supply troops, move supplies, logistics, comparing costs today vs. then, transportation - cost of war
Students plot distances of troop movement, convert to student footsteps, compare distance
Communication and noncommunication - play game "telephone"`
movement of troop into battle, plot distance difference with GPS
Writers/songs known in that era and comparing with artists at same time from other countries
using wordle to compare, google maps
Measured pace (pedometer app), GPS measures speed, simulate "troop movement"
Ghost Cadet book - march from VMI to New Market
measure distance with maps
Websites
The Price of Freedom: America at War
http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/exhibition/flash.html
America's Civil War
http://www.fredericksburg.com/CivilWar/index_html
The Underground Railroad
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/j1.html
Shenandoah at War
http://www.shenandoahatwar.org/index_front.html#
Animated Battle Map
http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/VoS/MAPDEMO/Theater/TheTheater.html
Apps
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center